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The U.S. stock index futures point to a lower open ahead of the Bureau of Labor Statistics' unemployment report.

Crude oil prices advanced slightly and hovered above $86 a barrel during the Asian trading hours Friday.

Malaysia posted a better-than-expected trade surplus in October, indicating that the country’s economic condition continued to strengthen.

The Asian Development Bank slightly lowered the 2012 and 2013 growth forecasts for developing Asia.

The United States is likely to give India, South Korea, Turkey and other nations another six-month reprieve Friday from financial sanctions because they have cut their oil purchases from Iran.

Along with stopping Megaupload the MPAA hopes to now take down The Pirate Bay, Kat.ph, isoHunt, and other major torrent sites, almost all of which are hosted internationally.

Fortunes are changing for Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom, whose file-sharing website and servers were raided illegally in January by New Zealand police. A new court ruling from New Zealand’s High Court has confirmed that the country’s spy agency illegally spied on him and must make public the details of their Dotcom surveillance.

Metallica and Sean Parker ended their feud over music-sharing as the metal band announced it would add its catalog to the popular streaming service.

"Peanuts" creator Charles Schulz wrote a series of letters, including animations of his famous characters, in an attempt to seduce a woman 25 years his junior.

A new report from the NRDC suggests that the U.S. winter tourism industry has experienced a $1 billion loss over the last decade due to climate change.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation reports that e-readers like Amazon's Kindle track much more data than users realize.

Network administrators wanted in Columbus, logisticians in Oklahoma City ... here are the most in-demand jobs and where they are.

Shares of GPS specialist Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ:GRMN) rose 6 percent Thursday ahead of the company's inclusion in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index.

The culture of smoking is deeply rooted in Bangladesh, particularly among men, regardless of social class or income.

Actor Stephen Baldwin is accused of repeated failure to file personal income tax returns for 2008, 2009 and 2010.

The group that has petitioned against Ellen DeGeneres wants her removed as JCPenney's spokeswoman after she starred in a commercial.

The wanted anti-virus king was denied Guatemalan asylum and will be flown back to Belize to face questioning about his neighbor's death.

Zynga (Nasdaq: ZNGA) has begun to apply with state regulators in Nevada to license its online and mobile games for real-money gambling.

Do we bury inconvenient histories or memorialize them? That's the debate over the proposed Manhattan Project National Historical Park.

Though filming on Murphy's final film “Something Wicked,” wrapped months before her death in 2009, the actress' passing caused delays in final production.

A new study from W3i found that microtransactions only contribute a small amount to the overall revenue of mobile games, calling into question the presumed success of freemium business models.